JOURNAL ARTICLE

Structured DEVS Formalism: A Structural Modelling Method of Discrete Event Systems

Hae-Sang Song

Year: 2012 Journal:   Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation Vol: 21 (2)Pages: 19-30

Abstract

최근 몇 십년간 이산사건시스템명세(DEVS) 형식론은 이산사건시스템을 모듈러하고 계층적으로 모델링할 수 있는 잘 정의된 의미론을 제공하여 왔다. 그럼에도 불구하고 실용 엔지니어들은 실세계의 시스템을 모델링에 적용하는데 어려움을 겪기도 하는데 이는 DEVS가 많은 상태와 사건들을 구조화되지 않은 형태로 명세해야 하는 것 때문이다. 본 논문은 집합 이론을 바탕으로 그러한 사건 및 상태집합들을 구조화된 형태로 표현하는 Structured DEVS 형식론과 이와 연관된 DEVS 다이어그램을 제안하고자 한다. 위상, 변수, 포트 등의 개념을 사용하여 집합들을 명세한 구조적 DEVS 형식론은 원래의 DEVS 형식론과 동등함을 증명하였다. DEVS 다이어그램을 이용하여 구조적 DEVS 형식론으로 표현된 예시 모델이 쉽게 객체지향 시뮬레이션 환경에서 구현될 수 있음을 보임으로써 제안된 형식론이 효과적임을 보였다. In recent decades, it has been known that the Discrete Event System Specification, or DEVS, formalism provides sound semantics to design a modular and hierarchical model of a discrete event system. In spite of this benefit, practitioners have difficulties in applying the semantics to real-world systems modeling because DEVS needs to specify a large size of sets of events and/or states in an unstructured form. To resolve the difficulties, this paper proposes an extension of the DEVS formalism, called the Structured DEVS formalism, with an associated graphical representation, called the DEVS diagram, by means of structural representation of such sets based on closure property of set theory. The proposed formalism is proved to be equivalent to the original DEVS formalism in their model specification, yet the new formalism specifies sets in a structured form with a concept of phases, variables and ports. A simplified example of the structured DEVS with the DEVS diagram shows the effectiveness of the proposed formalism which can be easily implemented in an objected-oriented simulation environment.

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DEVS Formalism (music) Computer science Theoretical computer science Discrete event simulation Modeling and simulation Programming language Simulation

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